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Contents
1 Welcome!
1.1 Getting started
2 Scope and goals
2.1 Scope
2.2 Goals
3 Guidelines
3.1 Articles with no references
3.2 Articles based on a single source
3.3 Articles with partial or incomplete sources
3.4 Articles with questionable resources
3.5 Articles with statements that lack references
4 Open tasks
4.1 How can I help now?
4.2 Help now: Solve Citations Needed!
5 Participants
5.1 Participants
6 Templates
6.1 Userbox
6.2 Invitation
6.3 Pages
7 See also
7.1 Related projects
7.2 Key pages
7.3 Tools
7.4 Reports
7.5 Miscellaneous
Hello, and welcome to WikiProject Reliability. This WikiProject is dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. We ensure that articles are supported by reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources. This project works to achieve the goals of the verifiability and no original research policies. If you would like to help, please join the project, participate on the talk page and see the open tasks below.
Getting started
Do you have an article/fact/reference that needs checking? See the guidelines for help with tagging articles for review and correction.
Do you need help creating citations? See the Referencing for beginners and Citing sources pages for information on how to write references and create citations
Do you want to help improve the reliability of Wikipedia? Lend a hand with some of the open tasks, and add your name to the participants list.
Do you have a question? Please feel free to comment on the project talk page, and someone will try to help as soon as possible!
Give me something simple to do! There are over 354,617 "Citation needed" statements on Wikipedia. Click here to use the Citation Hunt tool which makes it easy to pick one to fix.
Scope and goals
Scope
This WikiProject covers all articles on Wikipedia.
Goals
- Ensure that content in articles is verifiable
- Identify and tag claims that require verification with appropriate templates
- Perform fact and reference checks for articles with verification templates
- Provide assistance with factual verification to editors
- Improve the reliability of sources cited in articles
- Add citations to reliable sources
- Replace citations to questionable sources with citations to better sources
- Remove content supported by questionable sources when it is unsupported by reliable sources
- Add citations to reliable sources
- Participate in discussions on the reliable sources noticeboard
- Affirm sources that have a reputation for accuracy, fact-checking, and error-correction
- Challenge questionable sources, including self-published sources authored by non-experts, sponsored content, and spam
- Maintain the list of perennial sources
- Add perennial sources that are missing from the page
- Index new discussions from the reliable sources noticeboard
- Update entries when noticeboard discussions are archived
Guidelines
Articles with no references
For an article with no citations, add the template unreferenced to the beginning of the article to flag it for review and addition of citations. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles lacking sources.
Articles based on a single source
If the article has only one reference or external link (that is related to the article content), use one source to put the article in Category:Articles lacking sources.
Articles with partial or incomplete sources
For an article with partial sources, add the templates refimprove or primary sources. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles needing additional references or Category:Articles lacking reliable references.
Articles with questionable resources
For an article with questionable resources, add the templates verify source or verify credibility to put the article in to Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification.
Articles with statements that lack references
For an article with small numbers of statements lacking references, add the template citation needed or citations missing. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles with unsourced statements.
Other maintenance templates are available at Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates.
Open tasks
How can I help now?
There are a number of different Wikipedia Backlog categories that help track the existing backlog of referencing activities. They fall into two major groups, Lacking References and Ensuring Accuracy through existing references:
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Help now: Solve Citations Needed!
At the moment, there are over 354,617 articles with "Citation needed" statements. They are some of the easiest referencing issues to solve, because you are frequently looking for a targeted and singular reference. You can browse the whole list of these articles at Category:All articles with unsourced statements.
With 354,617 statements that need WP:Verification, sometimes it's hard to choose which article to work on. The tool Citation Hunt makes that easier by suggesting random articles, which you can sort by topical category membership.
Participants
Participants
If you wish to join the project, please add your name to the list with:
#Your username ~~~~~
A Quest For Knowledge (talk · contribs) 20:29, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Factseducado (talk · contribs) 22:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Fifelfoo (talk · contribs) 05:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
History2007 (talk · contribs) 19:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
IRWolfie- (talk · contribs) 20:12, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Joe Decker (talk · contribs) 22:32, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
John Carter (talk · contribs) 23:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
John Vandenberg (talk · contribs) 11:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
JohnChrysostom (talk · contribs) 05:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Maunus (talk · contribs) 22:28, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Mauro Lanari (talk · contribs) 23:47, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Newslinger (talk · contribs) 16:52, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Orschstaffer (talk · contribs) 17:13, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
RL0919 (talk · contribs) 19:52, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
The Blade of the Northern Lights (talk · contribs) 04:01, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Waking-to Kindness (talk · contribs) 14:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Whiteghost.ink (talk · contribs) 02:46, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
YHoshua (talk · contribs) 04:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Guy Macon (talk · contribs) 01:08, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
This project was merged with WikiProject Fact and Reference Check, whose participants are listed here.
Templates
Userbox
The WikiProject Reliability userbox can be added with User WikiProject Reliability, which shows:
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability. |
Invitation
To invite a user to WikiProject Reliability, use subst:WikiProject Reliability invite, which displays:
 | Hi, WikiProject Reliability! Thanks for ensuring that articles are supported by reliable sources. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Reliability, a collaborative effort to improve the reliability of Wikipedia articles. If you would like to participate, please visit WikiProject Reliability for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Participants". Thanks! ~~~~ |
Pages
To include a page under WikiProject Reliability, add WikiProject Reliability to the top of the corresponding talk page, which shows:
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This also adds the page to Category:Wikipedia reliable sources.
See also
Related projects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles - a category based project to review articles that are in Category:Articles lacking sources.- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unsourced Article Rescue
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
Wikicite - a project to create a standardized citation database.
m:Wikicite - new proposal on Meta
Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions - a list of pages where content contradicts other language versions.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange - a project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for.- WikiProject Notability
- WikiProject Spam
Key pages
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
- Wikipedia:Deprecated sources
- MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist
Tools
- Citation Hunt
Reports
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability/Self-published source usage report
Miscellaneous
- Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
Category:WikiProject reference libraries - listing resources from many projects- Reliable sources in content review processes
- Sources in biology and medicine
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